Dilation Exercise 21

Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to go to work on it. If the artwork inspires a story, please say something about it in a comment. Need a further explanation? Go to Imagination Workout—What is This?

“I really don’t know how it happened.”
In another time, he might have been a compassionate leader.

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“A fun weekend in the woods, he said,” Tom remembered. He felt the life running out of him, like a ladden sponge emptying itself above a truck hood. “But it’s not even hunting season, I said.” He could barely see the tree ahead of him, his face shredded by claws that did a better job on his flesh than those gadgets they sell on late night TV. He remembered the campfire the night before, where he had made the ironic statement, “Aren’t there supposed to be Devil Creatures in these woods?” He companions had laughed at him. Now they were so much hamburger back at their campsite. He clutched at the tree trunk, trying desperately to stay concious. Behind him, he heard tiny hoofbeats behind him, chasing him, getting closer… only these beats were of something on two legs…

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